In the morning, I got my clean clothes packed these and was ready to roll at around 7 am...

Did someone sneeze? My bike in the lobby...

I was headed east, as you know, and there was a beautiful sunrise ahead of me - as the rising sun painted the sky red...

Riding into the sunrise

Historians do not have a lot of artifacts from this day, I visited an impressive, but newly-built mosque, rode on the shore, saw some ships...and made some photos.

Loch Ness Monster

...and this evasive monster feeds off on fish, this enforces my sighting.

My sighting confirmed - this is what the Loch Ness Monster feeds off on

I visited some towns, where on the main square, dogs were at play.

Castle of Trabzon

I looked for another place and found one - this one did not become my favorite, called Pointbreak Otell, My room was big, but the furniture was somewhat worn down. Still, I had a good night.

It was yet again 160 kilometers, with about 500 meters of altitude gain, here is the map. Batumi was now 200 kilometers away, with 4 days left...